The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-09-22

Federal laws were broken in the trial
AN INDIAN DEsPERADO JAILED.
FIT. SMITH, Ark, Sept. 20.-Zeke
Proctor, a notorious Cherokee despera-
| do, was brought in to-day for murder,
and lodged In the United States Jail
He was ring leader among hand OF
murderers living in Going Snake Dis
trict, and was at the head of the lndi-
ans in their bloody battle with deputy
marShalS fifteen years ago, but was
dent Grant granted him amnesty on
condition that he would remain peacea-
BILE. Proctor counts his murders by the
such a dangerous character that PreSl-
score, and Is charged Win seven that
he has been indictedsfor. He is one of
the toughest desperadOeS in the Indian
Territory. His latest killing, the one
for which ne was brought here to-day,
was that of a tenant on his farm whose
name is unknown.
A GENERAL FIGHT.
| LYNCHBURe, Sept. 20.-An Advance
Especial from Fincastle, Virginia, says:
| A general fight took place among a
large gang of railroad negroes near
| Wilton yesterday, in which several
/ were wounded and one man named
Ross will die. The origin of the diff
Guilty is not known.
THE PLOT DEEPENS.
NEW YORK, Sept. 2O.-A Key West
special says: A cart load of dynamite,
enough to blow upHaVana, was dis
covered in the woods near this city yes
| terday. The discovery has created in
against Cuba is much more formidable
than at first supposed. A little dyna-
mite was found here Immediately after
the Agorus expedition.
BLACKS MOTION DENIED.
| OTTAWA. Ills, Sept. 20.-Capt. Will
| liam p. Black arrived in Ottawa last
evening, and this morning appeared be-
fore the Supreme Court and entered a
motion for leave to withdraw the orig
inal record in the Anarchists case for
the period of thirty days. say
ing he wished to submit it to his
associate counsel who resided in New
| York, and then if so advised to submit
the record to the United States Su-
preme Court upon an application for
writ of error. After consultation the
court overruled the motion. In over
ruling the motion Chief Justice
Sheldon said that a similar motion had
before been presented to the court and
had always been denied, citing case
court had asked and been
denied leave to take the record to the
hotel to look it over during the night.
Captain Black appeared very much
discouraged when his motion was de-
MED, and shortly after court adjourned
remarked that He wOnld not have the
responsibility of denying that motion
| on his head for the world" That the
court had only given them
denying this motion would give the i'm
preston abroad that the court did not
| desire to aid the seven men in getting
Justice. One of the judges on being
| told of this remark said they did not
care what Impression went abroad,
they proposed to do what was right and
| in accordance with the law and the
rules of the court.
A RECKLESS EDITOR.
LEAVENWoRTH, Kas., Sept. 90
| About O. clock this afternoon a pistol
shot was heard in the upper story of the
Sun Office, and few seconds later a
woman came running down stairs say
ing she has shot me;s I am dying"
Her little boy was clinging to her dress.
Following them was her husband,
Quentin Campbell, editor of the Even
ing Sun with pistol in his hand which
he leveled at her, the second time, but
it would not go off. The woman walk,
ed about five doors up and staggered
into restaurant. Her husband, catch
ing up with her, he assisted her in and
at once seemed to regret what he had
rested and gave as the reason
for the shooting that his wife had con-
| fessed to being untrue to him while
visiting her sister in Kansas City and
that it so agitated him that he lost con-
troll of himself. The woman on being
interviewed gave in substance the
following: I was living with my
mother in Kansas City when l first
met him and he was working on the
Journal. He boarded at our house and
| one night we were married without the
knowledge of my relatives, l being but
/ Is years old. For while we got along
nicely, but he got to drinking heavy
and for some time past ! have support
drunkard. The doctors have taken
the bullet out and says she stands a
good chance of recovery.
DESPERATE CRIMINALS PLOT.
| KANSAS CITY, Sept. 20.-A desperate
plot of four prisoners in the county
Jail was discovered this afternoon in
time to prevent Jail delivery, and
probably a murder. The four men i'm
plicated are H. G. Mcbride alias Shea,
one of the robbers who is charged with
shooting Officer Register, jeff Stephens,
who has committed three murders
and is now in Jail under in,
ard, charged with felonious assault
and Sam Brockman, stealing. One OF
the four revealed the plot to County
Marshal McGowan this afternoon.
The four prisoners occupied one cell.
They had drilled holes through the iron
floor and torn it so as to leave room &c
burTow underneath into the corridor
They had already begun picking at the
cement floor in the corridor. Theil
scheme was to get out, shortly before
midnight and climb ON top of the cell
They had secured razor and haC
planned that when the night
guard, Andy O'Hare, came in al
midnight to put out the lights they
would jump on him and Overpower hin
and kill him if necessary, to take the
kew to the outside door of the building
AS O'Hare is the only guard in the jai
, this could easily have been done
Marshal MCGOWAN was to have gone t.
! Chicago tonight after prisoner, AMI
J the prisoners expected to do the job to
+ night. All the work was done witt
! the steel from their shoes, a pair o
j scissors and the razor.
ANOTHER TEXAS TRAIN ROBBERY.
KANSAS CITY, Sept. 2O.-A For
Worth, Texas, special gives the de
: tails of train robbery perpetrated OF
= the Texas s. Pacific road tonight. Th
! scene OF the robbery Is near Bent Roek
= at the same spot where a train wa
:. robbed last June. just as the Eas
bound passenger pulled out of Ben
e Rock station at dusk tonight, tw
!. men boarded the cab of The engine an
g covering Engineer Baller with thei
g reyOlyerS ordered him to 90 ahea
s until they ordered him TO stop. Afte
It the train had crossed the tressel owe
q Mary's Greek the order was given an
/ the train stopped, two more men wei
It waiting here. Two guarded th
= engineer and fireman while the otht
is two walked back to the Pacific EXPIRES
n car which they found locked. Expires
, Messenger Maloney refused to ope
is it and the robbers battered In Il
a door. During this time Maloney hs
Ie been able to secrete some of the valu
7. bic packages. The robbers hurried
re took what was In the safe and the
is went forward to the mail car and fore
Ar Mail Agent Griffin and Assista
Ia Stewart TO give up the registered pack